At 1:54 PM -0500 2/12/06, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
I have been used to: old value = new value The 8th value of previous section becomes quoter value in new section, indicates the music is going to be double time. I was recently told traditionally this is backward, which I think is very counterintuitive, but also it is not totally illogical.I have been googling to no avail. Do you know if the above statement of tradition is true and if so, is there any pointer URL?
Well, there's the Renaissance tradition (3/2, 3/1, each meaning three notes in the new proportion in the time of 2 or one of the same note in the old time, and so technically backwards. That may have extended into the 19th century; I really don't know. Nowadays I would personally opt to use <oldvalue> = <newvalue> simply because it is more logical, but I don't know what the "rule" is.
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